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on file before. the week's top stories in r.t. and they hold to iran's nuclear program gives hope for diplomacy but more threatening sanctions from washington could put that progress in reverse as capitol hill chooses between israeli plays and barack obama's promises. meanwhile reports emerge that israel could join forces with former foes saudi arabia to attack iran if a deal with world powers fails to rollback terrans nuclear program. underground adoption in the united states when their children proved too much to handle adoptive parents to simply handing them over to strangers through the internet. mission accomplished the sort she twenty fourteen olympic torch returned safe and sound off the russian cosmonauts took it on in a storage space while. broadcasting
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twenty four seven live from moscow you with r.t. this week's interlude between the two rounds of crucial talks over iran's nuclear program has some has sent some mixed signals on the one hand the u.n. watchdog declared that atomic projects have been virtually frozen since president rouhani came to power on the other u.s. lawmakers dug their heels in about imposing yet more sanctions on iran a move that threatens to derail the deal to buy more say looks at what else is jeopardizing the diplomacy the pieces are in place. we have time and again said that i know no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons nor will we ever wrong and how you. operate
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with respect to this case and i think these to be undertaken by going. to meet all of all present and policy. woman or words flowing relations yet just as the deal in geneva was on the cons between the world pollens and iran came concern from france a surprise move that stalled the talks but and friends new friends in israel who'd been the traditional stumbling block up to now still small ting from the threats and intense rhetoric of the recent past is will refuses to budge that's a bad deal it's a dangerous. because it keeps iran as a nuclear threshold nation. we are not blind and i don't think we're stupid as were the main bargaining chips the sanctions like me not to could prove the deal maker when congress is having none of it putting president obama in
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a tough spot i think rouhani has staked his position on the idea that he can improve relations with the rest of the world and so far he's been saying a lot of the right things if i were the prime minister of israel. be very wary as well of any kind of. talk from the iranians and then there's the bargaining hammam israel building most subtle moments when things don't go its way approving more units only last month leaving us congress to get trigger happy with more sanctions don't draw us into a bad deal with iran we already know how israel's benjamin netanyahu feels advocating his case on twitter through yet another colorful graphic presentation and of the red carpet will be rolled out for its newfound french friends present it's tough to predict whether the p five plus one will equal unity when they get
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back around the table next week in geneva. they are to moscow. now should the talks result in something israel isn't happy with it's reportedly ready to join forces with a former sworn enemy for a possible strike on iran britain's sunday times newspaper suggests saudi arabia is working closely with israel's mossad on a military campaign if iran's nuclear program isn't binding agreement in geneva under the reported plan saudi arabia is understood to be allowing israel use of its airspace it would also assist israel in deploying combat drones helicopters and tanker planes the saudis are furious and are willing to give israel all the help it needs that's what an anonymous source allegedly told the newspaper the sunni muslim gulf kingdom is alarmed that shiite dominated iran could get a nuclear weapon a concern shared by israel iranian political analyst side mohammad marandi thinks that if this scenario plays out there would be no witness. well we don't know if
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these reports are true but the saudis and the israelis are moving closer and closer to one another however tie the mike the saudis or the israelis would really want to iran because. this would be a new loser as they would be seeing the grass or. obviously the iranians would retaliate the soviets would you know very one or they would create an economic catastrophe for the world. that would mobilize the whole middle east especially people on the streets in support of iran they would isolate israel after all the americans with all their firepower. failed in their attempt to bring about syria because world public opinion and american public opinion simply would not accept it . well if such plans do exist they might come to life even if next week's geneva nuclear talks ended an agreement of some kind of we're asking you if you think it
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deal can be reached for this is how you are voting at the moment more than half of those who have voted so far think israel's opposition will prevent any deal about a third of you here believe there is a chance but only if the west recognizes iran's right to nuclear energy a little over ten percent are pessimistic saying that neither side needs a deal so badly they would rush into it in the final five percent say iran will agree to a deal only after sanctions leave it with no choice you can add your voice at r.t. dot com. syria could be free of most of its chemical arsenal by the end of the year if another country turns up willing to take it on the ambitious deadline was set by the international chemical watchdog as part of a road map which also says all toxic stockpiles must be destroyed by the end of next june the biggest problem now a lack of volunteers to take on the delicate task of eliminating more than one
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thousand tons of highly poisonous materials norway was first to give. its refusal was mirrored by albania which saw a series of protests against the country being the destruction site for syria's arsenal political analyst chris bambery says it should be europe's wealthy nations step in to implement the ambitious elimination plan. my understanding is that they will go to france and i think it's really the onus is on britain or france in terms of the western european powers to deal with this because as i say they do have chemical weapons although we don't advertise the fact that britain and france have stockpiles of chemical weapons they do have the ability to do that the french and the british have the facilities were you can dismantle these things safely they have the expertise surely that's the better option. by this deal but west should really put its money where its mouth is here it's so dark to this deal it's sending ships in this case norwegian ship to deal with this but the norwegians clearing the
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door of the expertise to dismantle it you can see why chemical weapons see the will not to take them him and i think it kind of smacks of resentment over the fact that really in the end this deal has come or. brokered a deal. and no syria has abided by the agreements of it and i can't hear but feel there's a kind of resentment in european capitals that actually the deal has worked. even without hosting syria's chemical weapons the e.u. is being dragged deeper and deeper into the conflict intelligence chiefs believe me . than a thousand young european muslims have chilling the islamists and are fighting in syria is still being recruited through social media the u.s. counterterrorism coordinator says the jihad this agenda goes further than toppling a sad it's actually a real threat to europe we are in the process of trying to understand better the reason why so many europeans are going to syria where we start being concerned
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it's weird and that's what we understand many of the mean the joining to. a few good. groups which not only wants to work through a sad but the global jihad really wreak and share fully the project if i get out and therefore we think i think would see that in the future but many of them will get back in europe much more radical to me inspire the order that recruit order or they meet for saab even directed more to attack in europe. ahead the notorious corner of the caribbean that refuses to close. it's very easy to enter one ton of it's hard to tell right now exactly how long it will be down here doing this mission as it racks up twelve years we go behind the barbed wire for more insight into america's most notorious prison where over one hundred sixty prisoners
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are still being held many without trial or charge. as the deaths of innocents in iraq this year reaches its highest is artie launches a special online project to count the real numbers the civilian slaughtered. and underground adoption market has been exposed in the united states it's called private rehiring and allows parents to get rid of their unwanted adopted kids by advertising online no background checks or government scrutiny means children could end up with families who would never be legally allowed to adopt or even end up with criminals. has the details animal owners may be familiar with the term private real homey typically it refers to those seeking to give their pet away but today the practice is reportedly being used by parents looking to give away the child they adopted from overseas and no longer wants an investigation conducted by
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reuters found that this type of child trafficking is happening largely in cyberspace where parents allegedly advertise their unwanted children through yahoo and facebook groups the lawless atmosphere allows internationally adopted orphans to be passed on to strangers without government scrutiny or even a paper trail as a result many of these children can end up in the custody of criminals sex offenders or abusive adults that would have never been allowed to legally adopt many of the children advertised online for private re homey. between the ages of six to fourteen and had been adopted from abroad including from countries such as russia china ethiopia and ukraine it poses huge risks right because some of the pay always into which these children who are probably perfectly good in the children are doing better perhaps and some of them are not as of this year u.s.
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citizens are banned from adopting russian orphans since one nine hundred ninety one thousand russian children have reportedly died at the hands of their american adoptive parents reporting from new york marine upward nile r.t. . while i'm wanted children have been advertised for every home at least once a week he spoke to one young man who told us how his life took a turn for the worse when he was passed on to a new family dimitris stewart was five years old when he and his brother were adopted from an orphanage in a small town near moscow it would be a rocky road living with his adoptive american parents didn't really feel like. i was there when he was a young teenager after years of strained relations and after his parents had biological children of their own the stewarts decided it was time to find him a new home and that's when they turned to the internet is that i go underground groups where people want. their destructive adoptions and. that's how
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dimitris parents found nicole isa in eastern advertiser self as an aspiring mother that ran a homeschool demeter found out that this was far from the truth this is a little tiny basic. him he's serious it was clear that his new home was no home school there isn't even a desk there had to do homework he didn't even make you go to school she gave you the option to go to school and then you had a biological kid that was taken away from them from the stay so they want a lot of any more kids and that's why they're doing this underground underground thing nicole had been married to a man who was a pedophile and that she could not get a homestudy due to their finances these days private adoptions are far more common it's unclear how many of them were facilitated on the internet where it's harder to regulate the transactions between family it's after the traumatizing ordeal dimitri
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moved to this group home outside atlanta he feels safe with his new guardians in this quaint home in a nice suburban neighborhood he's never know who's who's going to. be out there looking for kids and there's six people out there everywhere and marietta georgia lives of all our t. . we join a police raid in moscow in a few minutes it's to tackle the city huge shaddai workforce of illegal immigrants we'll explain why it's causing a social and economic headache weekly continues after a quick break. economic down on the final. day. and the rest. will
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be if we. speak our language. program documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world of p.r.p. interview intriguing story. arabic for a visit arabic. called. as
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guantanamo bay not a grim milestone this week former american military top brass rounded on the jail demanding its closure the notorious prison has been twelve years in operation and over three dozen retired generals and admirals have written to the senate to close what they call a symbol of torture something president obama has failed to fill. in the reports now from inside one town and i back. when it comes to this prison the numbers speak for themselves since being set up after the attacks of nine eleven a total of seven hundred seventy nine hundred have been held at guantanamo today one hundred sixty four people remain over half of them have been long cleared for release but remain locked up a total of six people is currently under trial alleged prisoners of war brought
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here since two thousand and two removed from the battlefield of america's ever expanding war on terror it's both the policy of the u.s. not to hold anyone longer than necessary but we also know that whenever we release someone we assume a richness over a period of more than a decade the majority of detainees held here have been set free and if the men of guantanamo are really these superhuman monsters you know the worst of the worst quote dick cheney. they would have been really. most of those still kept locked up have not been charged and are being held indefinitely what sort of a black hole of the system where the president of the united states simply refuses to say the innocent but u.s. officials say the law of war brings behind this barbed wire the idea that in a war when you capture folks you as the capturing authority are permitted to hold people during the duration of hostilities. when hostilities and or if there's no longer any purpose legitimate purpose to to hold them then they must be released
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a tiny problem the war on terror has no geographic borders with men once held here repeat treated to a wide array of countries. who are only specific to guantanamo you called even you couldn't even the case in the u.s. mainland because it would be unconstitutional and illegal the war on terror also has no end in sight and national security is a popular excuse to simply ignore the law. over the years countless detainee claims of mistreatment and abuse dozens of suicide attempts mass hunger strikes lost patience and hold just this year the majority of the prison population refused to eat for six months street only to be force fed washington has appointed a new envoy to close a camp that is a dark spot on america's image this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that some have dubbed the gulag of our times even if close it seems. to mean a state in u.s.
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history forever it's very easy to end one ton of. you release the men that you're not prosecuting. and as you said only six men are being prosecuted right now the military prosecutor has made clear that he intends to prosecute a few more but he's also made clear that it won't be more than a few more direct obama promised to close the notorious facility on day one of his presidency he's now in his second term it's only a president who can do it and the idea that it's you know that it's congress's fault is just not correct it is the president the top holding these men in detention some the president has to come in and this. it's hard to tell right now exactly how one will be down here doing this mission.
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and stacy churkin at artsy guantanamo bay cuba. elsewhere in the u.s. though this profit to be made from prison is the report in the next hour on the private prison industry that lobbying washington to punish even minor offenses with jail terms. has been a week of intense bloodshed in iraq with more than one hundred thirty seven killed iraqi security forces have been unable to curb the violence with lethal bombings causing a spike in deaths this year nearly eight thousand people killed the worst since two thousand and eight one political refugee from saddam hussein's regime told us that the tactics which the u.s. followed in its intervention led to today's ongoing chaos the united states wanted to separate all the iraqi forces and to play on sectarian divisions divisions exasperating the natural differences.
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and clashes but there is also this presence of the terrorist organizations which which is most fear of conflict between these political organizations and groups represented within the government. r.t. has launched a special online project to follow the effects of the growing violence in iraq this year the website is at the bottom of your screen right now and we've got a detailed timeline documenting all the major instance over the course of this year and the casualty figures. dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to
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know. mass illegal immigration to russia which was exposed by last month's murder at a moscow market is seen in effect of police chiefs kicked out and triggered raids on foreigners with that permission to be in the country at least two hundred illegals were repaired from russia following that single incident but as paul scott explains it's only the tip of the iceberg. migration in moscow is a sensitive subject right now following last month's murder of russian manye gaucher back over allegedly at the hands of an azerbaijani migrant and the nationalistic riots that followed the issue is firmly in the spotlight and an r.t. camera crew has found out just how sensitive the topic is we went to a market on the outskirts of moscow to try and film an interview with mohammad mage i'm the president of the russian federation of migrants despite getting prive
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commission to film it soon became clear a presence was not welcome. to russian so i have to repeat myself the site ends with the fence we eventually set up our interview away from the market. i think they may have suspected some illegal activities of course and when you have thousands of migrant some of them may not have work permits or residence permits. the exact number of migrants in moscow is hard to calculate the best estimates put the figure out around one quarter of the population and according to official statistics one in five murders wanting to rapes and one in three robberies a carried out by migrants. a cane to be seen to be tackling the problem as we found out before our meeting with mohammed. morsi as the rest in the outskirts of moscow police have been clamping down on illegal immigration every friday they go on a range of accommodation places of looking for illegal immigrants it's friday
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morning and we're going with the police on one of those raids and it didn't take long for the police to get down to business demanding people's papal walk. you know where do leave where do you leave. now the raid on the outskirts of moscow in the stuff i was last there to just about an hour and so far police have rounded up thirty five individuals who don't have the correct paperwork. around one hundred eighty thousand work permits are granted each year according to mohammed this figure is far too low. to address it so you need to conduct a survey as to how many migrant workers more scrutiny if it means a million workers you should issue a million work permits not a mere hundred thousand. it's believed around three million migrants are working in moscow ninety four percent of them illegally it is creating a vast black market for cheap labor market that some looking to keep out of the
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spotlight let's go to. moscow meanwhile if you're in the u.k. but shouldn't be expect a text the home office has taken to sending phone messages directly to illegal immigrants telling them to get the problem is it's not always in the girls on the receiving end that story is coming up next our. big top is opening adventure concluded this week the iconic symbol returned to earth on monday after spending four days at the international space station where it was taken out for the first ever spaceport in sea france as more. right here in mission control when the big red letters landed flashed on the screen a huge round of applause went up to see the torch back safely here on earth with three crew members russian cosmonauts fyodor yurchikhin american karen nyberg and italian luca parmitano now we watched as the capsule broke through the atmosphere and that large parachute opened up over the skies of kazakstan as it came hurdling
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back toward earth the torch has been in space before but it's never been taken on a space walk and that's exactly what occurred blasted off from the back door cosmodrome on thursday made it safely up to the eye assess nine crew members up there and then it was taken out on a spacewalk on saturday by two cars minot's we were here live watching and it was very exciting to see the engineers actually walk walk the cosmonauts through the steps on how to get around the i assessed without a torch in hand of course it was not lit but nonetheless the spirit of unity and sportsmanship was up there on the i s s in the form of that torch next it plans to go to the beautiful area out in the eastern part of russia and it's going to go to the bottom of lake baikal it's going to go to the top of europe's highest peak mount elbrus and it's going to continue on on this longest relay and olympic torch history and all the way to saatchi in february something that we're all watching and enjoying
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a lot but certainly this detour to outer space was something very momentous and historic to see happen to. you about see the week's big business next now with katie pillbug. the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motion security play your part of the musical. push use that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand one hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen
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thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air sea and outer space. a limping torch relay. on r t r two dot com. will. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. think that what the french capital with me casey will be this week told three commands on the transatlantic trade deal we realize the risks that could. operate and see that just admit that we've also got the eurozone we could be embracing at
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negative interest rates what exactly will this mean what exactly we're talking diamonds paintings metals because my psychic research on thomas he'll be out later it's a lot to get through but. the usa you traded is worth an estimated one hundred fifty billion dollars for both parties but these huge profits could come at a cost to the average consumer and there are plenty of stumbling blocks holding up the deal since cars are what each side wants so the u.s. is asking for a new restrictions on genetically modified crops and chlorine washed poultry to be caught to maintain intellectual secrecy for more access for u.s. service providers e u wants the beef ban which was first introduced because of the mad cow disease to be lifted or reduction of terrorist on items such as cheese on the free flow of information is now let's dive deeper into the consequences of the deal with were.

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